[LAU] JACK freewheel mode: disadvantages?

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 8:31 PM, jonetsu at teksavvy.com <jonetsu at teksavvy.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 00:56:57 +0100
> Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> wrote:
>
> > How about using a GNU/Linux distribution that does not ship a 2 1/2
> > year old versions of jackd?
>
> No way.  I do not want to install a new OS anytime soon.  This LM 17
> works fine and is supported until 2019 security-wise.  (Hopefully no
> malware will come through the updates since LM was hacked seriously
> recently.)
>

Except ... it doesn't work fine, because it has a 2-1/2 year old version of
JACK :)


>
> > No drawbacks. Except you'll have to stop jackd if you want to use the
> > same device as jackd is using.
>
> > There's also a "None (Dummy)" audio system which does not need an
> > actual device, but this only available if Ardour was configured
> > with
> >     ./waf configure --with-backends=jack,alsa,dummy
> >
> > (Ardour4 debug builds from http://nightly.ardour.org/ have this
> > enabled).
>
> Thanks for the details.  Can this dummy option be used for exports and
> will it be in the next Ardour release ?


As Robin explained, the "dummy" backend is in *debug* builds on the nightly
site. We do not include it in normal releases.
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